Donate to SETI@home

"SETI is probably the most important quest of our time,
and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently."
- Arthur C. Clarke 2006

Thank you for considering a donation to SETI@home.

SETI@home is a nonprofit educational and research organization
that relies significantly on donations to continue operations.
E-mails are currently being sent to all our users asking for their help.
This process takes time (we expect to be finished by December 25th).
Perhaps your spam filters blocked our e-mail.
If you haven't gotten your e-mail yet,
you can always read it on line.

Q: How is my donation spent?
A: Donations will be spent on staff salaries, server hardware,
network bandwidth, and other expenses. See our
current budget.

Q: How much of my donation actually goes to you?
A: Over 89% of your donation goes directly to SETI@home;
the rest goes to the University of California,
and pays for our office space, server room, and electricity.

Q: How private is your mailing list?
A: SETI@home does not share its mailing list with any other organization.

Q: Is my donation tax deductible?
A: If you are in the United States and Canada, your donation is tax-deductible.
The University of California
is a nonprofit educational and research organization
governed by the provisions of Section 501(c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
The University's Federal Identification number for reporting and tax purposes
is 94-6002123.

Q: What if I'm not in the U.S.?
A: The conditions for tax deductibility described above may only be applied to
taxes paid within the United States of America. For any other country or
territory, the local legislation and/or International Conventions may
sometimes allow you to benefit from similar local deductions, which
would apply for the reasons of supporting educational projects and
scientific research. You must verify these conditions yourself.

How to Donate

You can make a secure, on-line donation to SETI@home using your credit card or
VISA check card.

If you have a SETI@home account, please make sure the e-mail address you enter
on the gift form exactly matches the one in your account. Then after the
donation is processed the icon will appear next to
your name on our website (in stats pages, message boards, etc.) for the following year.
If you wish to keep this donation anonymous, please
still enter in the correct e-mail address, but also enter the word "anon"
anywhere in the field labeled "Special Instructions for this gift."
You will have the option to make donations anonymous later on.
Minimum donation is $10.

NOTE:
Some browsers (especially older ones) may experience trouble with the SETI@home donation site at givetocal.berkeley.edu if the browser doesn't recognize COMODO CA, Ltd as a valid security certification authority. Details and a workaround are available here.

Other ways you can donate:

If you would like to set up a monthly/quarterly donation directly from your
checking/savings account, please fill out
this form and send it to the address at the bottom (make sure to put "SETI@home"
as the fund name). Warning: since this method is not automated
you may not get a green star after your donation is completed.

PayPal users:
We vastly prefer the other donation methods listed above (due to lower overhead and ease of management),
but if you can't contribute to us otherwise, you can now use PayPal.
Thanks to the helpful support of the GPU Users Group, they
are collecting donations via PayPal for SETI@home, which (after the standard PayPal overhead) is
redirected entirely to us for general use or to then purchase specific pieces of hardware.
The GPU Users Group is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, so donations
made via this method are similarly tax-deductible. If you use this method, there may be a long delay
(as much as a month) before you obtain your green star. For more information, or to make a donation
through the GPU Users Group, click here.

If you'd like to donate in BitCoin our bitcoin donation address is 1DuKPGnQ16TJpDUKS1CgWvrdVKtRTGPgir If you would like to donate another electronic currency or via wire transfer, please contact Dr. Korpela at korpelaatssl.berkeley.edu for instructions.

If you'd like to donate hardware to the project, please donate through the GPU Users Group by
clicking here.